Stories

To help her home city of Bangkok adapt to extreme flooding, landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom MLA ’06 works with nature to design resilient urban spaces in vulnerable areas.

Chemist Emily Kerr PhD '22 is working to reduce the cost of redox flow batteries, which are less environmentally harmful and can store energy at a greater scale than lithium-ion batteries.

Leader in the field of nonprofit news, Chan is an award-winning editor and longtime mentor.

Distinguished journalist Sewell Chan AB '98 was chosen by his classmates to serve as the 2023 chief marshal of alumni.

Berry has made a bequest in gratitude for his Harvard experiences. 

A $75 million gift from Ernesto Bertarelli will create a new atrium and name an iconic campus building at Harvard Medical School.

For David Kwong '02, puzzles are magic

The Cummings Foundation has committed $50 million for an alliance between Harvard Medical School and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

Philip Mote AB '87 says rolling out climate solutions calls for coordinated efforts on policy, investment, innovation, and a lot of that comes back to the choices we make. 

Karmon succeeds Philip Lovejoy as executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Amy Huang ’17 wants to help us find new ways of feeding the world

The co-directors of the Harvard University Data Science Initiative discuss a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

Jim Stock discusses what’s ahead for innovative, cross-disciplinary, University-wide effort.

Laverne Cox, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Deval Patrick AB '78, JD '82 were among those honored for their extraordinary commitment to social justice.

As director of the Planetary Health Alliance at Harvard, Sam Myers AB '87, MPH '07 helps lead a rapidly growing movement focused on how our degradation of the natural world has become a crucial threat to our existence.

Alumna Kelsey Wirth AB ’91 founded Mothers Our Front, a grassroots organization that mobilizes moms—and anyone else who would like to join—to take action in the climate crisis.

A research alliance provides significant funding for faculty-led research at the Harvard Quantum Initiative.

A newly released report outlines a series of concrete steps to expand climate education in every discipline across Harvard.

What happens when women are relegated to the sidelines? Susie DeLellis Petruccelli ’96 is sharing their stories to equalize the playing fields

As a scientist and San Antonio city councilor, Ana Sandoval MPH ’15 has made mitigating the effects of climate change on human health the primary focus of her public service.